6/29/2023 0 Comments Wilkinson american spy![]() ![]() Sankara came to power in a 1983 coup d’état against the leadership of Upper Volta. As she gets pulled deeper into her work, she uncovers some uncomfortable truths about who she's working for. When she was recruited for an apparent CIA assignment that requires her to compromise the president of Burkina Faso ( Thomas Sankara), she jumps at the chance. She's dissatisfied with her work and her career progress as an FBI agent. Marie is a child of the civil rights era who works for the FBI in the 1980s and early 1990s. ![]() Keep that in mind as you read the rest of this post. ![]() I don't read much from either genre, so I'm unfamiliar with the tropes and conventions of either. It's a spy thriller, but also a work of historical fiction. Wilkinson writes the novel as a series of journals for she's writing to leave for her two sons while she goes off to settle a score. I finally got to it this month to close out my very modest 2022 reading goal of 14 books.Īmerican Spy is about Marie Mitchell, the daughter of a Martinican mother and Black American father and her relationships both to the people in her life and the institutions that shape Black life globally. It's been on my list to read since my husband snagged a copy of the book in paperback. Lauren Wilkinson's 2019 debut novel was critically acclaimed and a few best reads lists. ![]()
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